EAN: 9781529303889

AGATHA CHRISTIE - LUCY WORSLEY KARTONIERT (TB)

One brilliant woman writing about another: an irresistible combination.' - Antonia Fraser 'One
of the most delightful biographies I ever read.' - A.N. Wilson 'Reading Worsley is as enjoyable
as reading Christie herself.' - Ruth Scurr 'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the
heroine than I was.' Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an
ordinary housewife  when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says  'She was thrillingly 
scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii  she loved fast cars  and she was intrigued
by the new science of psychology  which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why -
despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian
lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women
could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned
bestselling writer. It's also the story of a person who  despite the obstacles of class and
gender  became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and
papers that have rarely been seen  Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and
entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a
woman who wrote the twentieth century.

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